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1 Lucas Zawacki Marcelo Johann
A Prospective Analysis of Analog Audio Recording with Web Servers
The Third Workshop on Ubiquitous Music: Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing for Education and Creative Industries
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In a nutshell…
- To access an analog synthesizer online, for
high-quality recording
- With batched access, it optimizes user and
system time
- A prototype is running, a paper under review
- That leads to ubiquitous access to analog
- Goal of this paper: to check what else can and
cannot be done: analog and acoustical processes
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Outline
- Motivation
- Our Proposal
- Working Prototype
- Analysis
- Possibilities
Synthesizers, acoustical, soundscapes, mixing, effects
- Final Remarks
- Discussion
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Motivation
- Digital is convenient, flexible, opens up lots of
new possibilities - “there’s an app for that”
- But Analog has unmistakable character, will
not be replaced soon
- And so does acoustical, in fact, easier to
understand how much
- Collecting analog synths is difficult, expensive,
as it is renting, studio time
- Online access in real-time is *inefficient*, like
renting, plus networking problems
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The Proposal
- An analog system (server, farm) online, to
render the sound of a performance
- Batched operation: users submit MIDI files
and retrieve audio sometime after
- Initially thought as a commercial system, but
there are many options
- Architecture: front-end, server-side, hardware
(computer, synth, MIDI, Audio)
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